28 TNTRODUrrORY. 



fired boxes and three hundred l)uskets, hehjnging to thirty 

 owners — woidd he nearly thirty-tive dollars, or as follows : 



Disinfection of 800 boxes, at 1 cent, - - - - - - $3 00 



Disinfection of 800 baskets, at \ cent, ------ 1 50 



Tliirty Inspector's certificates, at . $1.00. - - - - - -80 00 



Hy])othetical total, ---------- $;!4 .¥) 



The actual cost Avould have been : 



Disinfection of 300 boxes, at 1 cent, ------ $8 00 



Disinfection of 300 baskets, at ^ cent, ------ 1 50 



Certificate of Inspector (free), -------- 



Total cost of hypothetical load of return packages, $4 50 



Again coni])are figures : 



300 boxes, each containing 30 pounds of fruit, - - 1J,000 lbs 

 800 baskets, each containing 25 pounds of fruit, - - 7,500 lbs 



1(),500 Hjs 



Total cost of disinfection so that they could be used again 

 for shipping purposes, $4.50. 



Free packages, to carry 16,500 pounds of fruit to market — 

 550 packages, 80 pounds each, 10,500 ; cost of 550 packages, 

 at iS\ cents each, cheapest style, $85.75. Thus showing a clear 

 gain to the fruit grower of $81.25, less return freight, in favor 

 of the plan of disinfection. 



CHAPTER V. 



Quarantine. 



In a warfare for the extermination of the insect pests of 

 the orchards, etc., quarantine laws are a necessity. The 

 codlin moth, ]ieach moth, and other si)ecies of j)ests are spread 

 by tlic shi|tmcnt of infected fruits. The scale insect and 

 woolly a})liis have l)een and are being continually spread on 

 nurserv stock. 



